Synopses & Reviews
The book that started the New York Times bestselling collaboration of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...
But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
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Review
"What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." -
The Chicago Tribune"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." -Kirkus Reviews
Review
"Far above Crichton's
Jurassic Park."--
Booklist on
Relic
"What might happen if a creature from Jurassic Park came to New York City." -The Chicago Tribune on Relic
"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." -Kirkus Reviews on Relic
"Jaws takes Manhattan."--San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle on Relic
"A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. "--Tampa Tribune and Times on Relic
"A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot."--Publishers Weekly on Relic
Review
"Far above Crichton's
Jurassic Park."--
Booklist on
Relic "What might happen if a creature from
Jurassic Park came to New York City." -
The Chicago Tribune on
Relic"Wildly cool...Thrill hounds couldn't ask for a creepier environment...a thriller staged in the world's scariest building, with no room for the squeamish." -Kirkus Reviews on Relic "Jaws takes Manhattan."--San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle on Relic
"A thriller that arrives with the kinetic energy of a meteor smacking the earth. "--Tampa Tribune and Times on Relic "A high-concept, high-energy thriller . . . Builds to a superbly exciting climax, and then offers a final twist to boot."--Publishers Weekly on Relic
Synopsis
- Print advertising in horror publications.
- Over 1.2 million copies of Preston & Child's Relic in print in North America!
- The Relic was a New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller.
- The Relic was a selection of the Literary Guild.
- The Relic was turned into a hit Paramount motion picture starring Tom Seizmore and Penelope Ann Miller.
- Tie-in with the new Douglas Preston hardcover, The Codex (0-765-30700-6, 1/04).
Synopsis
Relic: The #1 New York Times bestselling thriller by Douglas Preston's and Lincoln Child, with more than one million copies sold to date
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...
But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
Synopsis
Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...
But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
Synopsis
The book that started the
New York Times bestselling collaboration of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human...
But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders.
Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who-or what-is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
About the Author
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child are the co-authors of the Pendergast series of thrillers, including such best-selling titles as Fever Dream, The Book of the Dead, and The Wheel of Darkness. Relic became a number one box office hit movie. Douglas Preston's solo novels include the New York Times bestsellers Impact, Blasphemy, The Codex, and Tyrannosaur Canyon. His most recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is being made into a film starring George Clooney. Preston is an expert long-distance horseman, a member of the elite Long Riders Guild, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has travelled to remote parts of the world as an archaeological correspondent for The New Yorker. He also worked as an editor and writer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. Preston is the Co-president of International Thriller Writers, and serves on the Governing Council of the Authors Guild. Lincoln Child is the author of Utopia, Death Match, Deep Storm, and Terminal Freeze. He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.